The Accident

John Prine · Other Songs - John Prine

It was a 4-way stop dilemma

we all arrived the same time

I yielded to the man to the right of me

he yielded right back to mine



Well the yield went around, and around, and around,

'til Pamela finally tried

just then the man in the light blue sedan

hit Pamela on the passenger side



chorus:

They don't know how lucky they are,

they could have run into that tree

got struck by a bolt of lightning and raped by a minority



Pamela hit her head on the mirror

Mrs. Walker got a bump on the knee

The man hit himself in the face and said

"Why does this happen to me?"



and the neighbors came out

and they gathered about

and said "Hey! Who hit who anyway?"

and the police arrived at a quarter to five

and pronounced all the victims okay



chorus

but they don't know how lucky they are...